Anna Geyer
Anna Geyer (born March 13, 1893 in Frankfurt am Main ; † March 2, 1973 in Detroit ), née Anna Elbert, was a German socialist politician and journalist.
Life
The daughter of a sculptor worked as a secretary after attending school. In 1917 she joined the USPD and married Curt Geyer . In the USPD she was a. a. Active in the Central Office for Works Councils and as the publisher of a press service. In 1919 she was elected to the Leipzig City Council and the Saxon People's Chamber , from which she left in October of the same year. At the end of 1920 she belonged, like her husband and her father-in-law Friedrich Geyer, to the left wing of the USPD, which merged with the KPD to form the VKPD at the end of 1920 , and here too she headed a press service. As part of the internal party disputes in 1921 about the March Action , she supported Paul Levi u. a. by continuing to provide him with board and Comintern interna after his resignation from party leadership , which led to her expulsion from the party in August 1921. Initially a member of the KAG around Levi and Ernst Däumig , Anna Geyer joined the USPD together with them in the spring of 1922, with the majority of which joined the SPD in autumn of that year , in which she u. a. was active on women's political issues.
In 1933, after the NSDAP came to power , she fled first to the Czechoslovak Republic and in 1937 to France. After the French defeat in 1940, she fled - unlike Curt Geyer, from whom she later divorced - via Portugal to the USA, where she a. a. was active in the German-American Council for the Liberation of Germany from Nazism around Albert Grzesinski .
Works
- Women's gainful employment in Germany Jena 1924
- The Women's Question in the Light of Socialism Dresden 1930 (together with Anna Blos , Adele Schreiber-Krieger and Louise Schroeder )
literature
- Short biography in: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. Dietz, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-320-02044-7 , p. 243 ( online ).
Web links
- Thomas Höpel: City of Leipzig - Women's suffrage - Past portraits: Geyer, Anna (accessed on March 2, 2020)
Individual evidence
- ^ Socialist Messages - News for German Socialists in England , No. 32 of December 1, 1941
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Geyer, Anna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Elbert, Anna (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German socialist politician and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 2nd 1973 |
| Place of death | Detroit |